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Just got a phone call from my puter-savy friend who works for Microsoft....and he said---------- "Shultzie, if you want a little sobering info about "WEB&%#*S" and other photo storage web sites similar to those....just go to Google and type in "WEBSHOTS-VIRUS"

After that...Yes, he highly recommends storing important photo on more than just one place. Starting with USB Slider Flash drives, external hard drives and hopefully time tested DVD's. Trusty any computer..no matter how fail safe it may appear...to hold precious memories or other sensitive $$ matters on just one place is a pretty risky affair. However...I was surprised that he couldn't or wouldn't recommend any kind program or concepts in how to stay cyber-safe in this fast changing new world?(pretty uncomfortable feelings he left me with...Hummm?

My Mac does not have an Intel processor (6 years old), so I can't use the super cool Mac interace. I can upload photos in groups of 5. Finding and adding the text along with the upload works out to about 3 minutes per photo. Or, in other words, if I worked about 8 hours a day for 6 weeks, I could transfer my photos and text to Picasa.

Macs aren't for business, that's the biggest reason there's not one in my house. If there were a place for them in the business world, I would have to learn them, too, and there would be one or two at my house.

The reason there aren't AS MANY viruses for Mac is why would a hacker waste his time going after less than 20% of the computer population ? The purpose of a virus is to take out as many computers as possible.

In a recent hacking competition at a major University the Apple was the first to go down, under 15 minutes. In reality it is the least secure O/S out there, it just isn't targeted. Since there isn't much market there also isn't much security software written for it. I don't know how much the chanting helps ...

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" John W Lennon

"People do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing" George Bernard Shaw

Yes, you both have given excellent reasons why PCs aren't as safe as Macs. And I'll even agree with you. The fact remains, that Macs are safer. I am almost happy that the hackers don't want to waste their time on Macs, except I have a PC also.

You people could run Macs and the software Parallels Desktop. Then run Windows for all your business apps. The company I do part-time work for switched last year to that configuration. But PCs have their place and are certainly incredibly strong with excellent bang for the buck.

I'll contact Picasa about ways to speed my upload bottleneck. Thanks for all the suggestions. I am saddened Webshots has deteriorated. Frazer offered to help with the transfer a while back.

Maybe their is a way to copy over the photos from Webshots to Picasa. I'd still lose all the text, but it would be a start.

Still open to suggestions, and feel free to keep the Mac/PC thing going. It's always fun. Well, I'm off to the dentist to get a crown, then the gym. Back later.

That is the section of the picasa page that creates direct links to your images....makes it REALLY easy to post in ANY forum!on the right hand column there is blue text that says "link to this Photo>" and this is the drop down box that appears....my preference is for 400px pictures and "image only (no link)" option....then you copy the "embed image" url (what ever way you do it on a mac etc) and post in the standard image tags on here.....works very well!!!

My Mac does not have an Intel processor (6 years old), so I can't use the super cool Mac interace. I can upload photos in groups of 5. Finding and adding the text along with the upload works out to about 3 minutes per photo. Or, in other words, if I worked about 8 hours a day for 6 weeks, I could transfer my photos and text to Picasa.

Are we reading this as you can't currently use the Picassa program and it's Synch Folder feature? That really throws a wrench in the works, eh? I would've just said work on it at your leasure until completed then tell Webshots to bug off. You could put that PC to use, setup a Synch folder and work at your leasure, or is it a hopeless dinosaur like a couple of mine?

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" John W Lennon

"People do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing" George Bernard Shaw

I downloaded the software and attempted to load it on my Mac. I got a window telling me the computer was not an INTEL based Mac and the software wouldn't work.

I went to the Forums and read in addition that:1 the software for Macs hangs up a lot of the Intel Mac computers after uploading a few pictures2 the upload software severely compresses the photos leaving visible artifacts3 there doesn't seem to be a way to grab the Webshots pages and bring them over directly to Picasa

It also looks like there is no way to rearrange the albums and/or pictures within an album, although I may have read that incorrectly.

I couldn't find any contact information to get any technical support. Maybe if I signed up for additional storage, that information might appear. If you have any contact info, let me know and I'll use it.______________________

MEANWHILE: Webshots wrote back to say:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Webshots Customer Support.

Webshots downloads are 100% free from viruses. We scan and verify ALL files before we make them available. Download with confidence! The software is safe!

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So I wrote back and asked them again, directly if they or their advertisers are pushing spyware in any form at any time.

I saw something about a plugin for iPhoto I thought, odd though since I also saw that you could not set a folder in iPhoto as your Synch folder since it is protected and Picassa can access photos in there as read only.

I wouldn't believe that Webshots is knowingly doing anything harmfull, but often advertisers are not thoroughly screened and even if they are what's to stop them from changing their advertisement or possible picking up an infection themselves that could be passed along. My problem with Webshots is the amount of adds, and amount of Flash, until last year I was dial-up like 50% of the country still is and Webshots was completely inaccessable to me unless I wanted to leave the computer running for an hour to get that first page downloaded. Once the popups started that meant you had to sit there for that hour to dispatch them so the page could continue loading. Now even after you've dispatched all the popups when you click to view a picture it takes you to an advertisers site instead rather then to the picture, forcing you to start all over. And you have to pay for that? They are taking money from you, then using your site to make money from advertisers and never letting me see your pictures that you wish to share with me, there is something very wrong with that.

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"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see" John W Lennon

"People do not quit playing because they grow old, they grow old because they quit playing" George Bernard Shaw

I have so many photos placed all over cyberspace...starting with Photoworks.com, Websh1ts and flickityfloppa-poopa-paapa and even a few others I can't even remember my usernamealdo's or peewords!!!!(forever lost in cyberspace.comeback home)

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